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The Walworth Farce review – tyranny and fantasy at the Elephant and Castle

There is comical swagger and escalating threat but Nicky Allpress’s revival of Enda Walsh’s play is strongest in its fragile moments

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Katherina Radeva: 40/40 review – joyful dance in defiance of convention

Radeva delivers a gloriously uncomplicated and deeply felt performance that is a delight to watch

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Grenfell: System Failure review – sobering unpicking of a tragedy

Writer Richard Norton-Taylor and director Nicolas Kent’s almost anti-theatrical play uses residents’ testimonies and gives the bereaved a much-needed voice

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The Winter’s Tale review – the Globe’s two-venue telling loses its way

As this ambitious production switches between stages, and deaths pile up like dishes, neither the comedy nor the tragedy have room to breathe

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Patti Love obituary

Actor best known for her stage work and acclaimed for her portrayal of Mary Barnes in the title role of David Edgar’s 1978 play

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Rusalka review – junk-filled staging brings magic and a sombre message

Ann Yee and Natalie Abrahami’s thoughtful and effective new production shapes Dvorák’s opera into a tale of mankind versus nature. A first-rate cast is matched by Semyon Bychkov in the pit

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Akedah review – sisters at sea in taut but frustrating Troubles drama

Two women disinter a trauma from their past in Michael John O’Neill’s allegorical play set in an evangelical church

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The Rhinegold review – witty and insightful, Jones’s production delivers an emphatic win for ENO

The Rhine shimmers, the gold dazzles and the gods posture – Richard Jones has by and large gone back to Wagnerian basics for his assured and cogent staging. In the pit, Martyn Brabbins and ENO’s orchestra add lustre

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Bootycandy review – thrilling, uproarious comedy explores Black queerness from every angle

Inventive direction and a spectacular cast make the London transfer of Robert O’Hara’s kaleidoscopic off-Broadway play a spiralling, high-energy triumph

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Right Dishonourable Friend review – nepo baby MP lands in Lancashire in heartfelt comedy

Phoebe Batteson-Brown is archly comic as the clueless Perdita but it’s the subplot about a queer teenager and the hypocrisy of politics that has real depth to it

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The Oyster Problem review – the struggle to save Flaubert from himself

In historian Orlando Figes’ rather too formal first play, the passionate romantic’s friends try to persuade him to be a little more worldly

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Standing at the Sky’s Edge review – Richard Hawley pulls on the heartstrings in his Sheffield opus

This new musical traces the intersecting lives of three families on the Park Hill estate in this spine-tingling and sentimental love song to the steel city

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‘It’s a grief and a healing’: why dance-makers love The Rite of Spring

Stravinsky’s ballet sensation of 1913 shocked its first Paris audience. More than 150 versions later, the far-reaching pull of this modernist masterpiece remains irresistible…

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Secret Things/ Everyone Keeps Me; Dance Me review – the glory of Pam Tanowitz

The American choreographer delights with a programme of rare wit, beauty and unshowy complexity. Elsewhere, a Vegas-style tribute to Leonard Cohen

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Carmen review – vivid revival finds ENO on fighting form

With Bizet’s opera’s menace and casual cruelty to the fore, cracking performances from soloists and chorus alike ensure that this is a tense and atmospheric production

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The Trial of Josie K review – kidding around with Kafka

Inspired by the classic novel, this play for children leads its young heroine through surreal encounters with bureaucracy – and a giant rabbit

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Bill’s 44th review – tender and boozy puppet party

A Beckettian sense of dread pervades Dorothy James and Andy Manjuck’s show about a wistful middle-aged man’s attempts to keep the darkness at bay

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Out of the spotlight: seven of dance’s hottest hidden talents

From costume and lighting designers to composers and producers, here are some of the dynamos bringing breathtaking dance shows to the stage

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Tannhäuser review – Lise Davidsen gleams though Albery’s Wagner misfires again

Tim Albery’s second revival only fitfully illuminates the opera’s complexities, but the singing and acting are superb

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The week in theatre: Othello; The Unfriend; On the Ropes – review

Brute force speaks volumes in Frantic Assembly’s breathtaking Othello; Steven Moffat and co flirt with farce; and the story of Windrush boxer Vernon Vanriel hits home in song

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Acosta Danza: Spectrum; Julie Cunningham: How Did We Get Here? – review

Big personalities shine out in the Cuban company’s celebratory show. And Mel C holds her own in Cunningham’s opaque new work

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Saint Jude review – delightfully disturbing immersive theatre in creepy clinic

Taking part in a trial shift to help coma patients wake up, the tension grows as it slowly becomes clear why you’re really mining strangers’ secrets

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We Didn’t Come to Hell for the Croissants review – wonderfully weird cabaret of the unexpected

Jemma Kahn’s show begins with a striptease, then ponders existential questions before ending with an orgiastic dinner party

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The Games We Play review – an absorbing mix of juggling, dance and philosophy

Gandini Juggling’s multifaceted show delves into the history of the art form while keeping several other balls in the air

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The Sleeping Beauty review – a vintage production rises and shines

It’s unapologetically retro, and there’s no story, but the Royal Ballet’s latest revival of Petipa’s intricate masterpiece casts its spell

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